Anyways, so a transfer is usually 6 weeks, though this one is 7, so it's
almost over!!!! AAAAHH! It's crazy :P This week was really uneventful.
We had almost no appointments... baaah. but this coming week has a lot
planned, so hopefully that will be good! Our apartment is super old,
like over 20 years, and so they are trying to update the piping systems
and hot water boilers and whatever, and so that means that for about 3
days we won't have hot water. So our options are to just take really
cold showers, or go to bath houses, where crazy Korean grandmas will
probably be really fascinated in a naked white person. :P So, next
week's email has potential to be extremely entertaining, depending on
what we choose. :P
So, this last week. Hm. There was a Stake Primary activity, and
about 30 or 40 kids came, they were all so cute! I wish my Korean was as
good as theirs :P As missionaries, we got to help with some of the
activities. We had this obstacle course set up in a room and we blind
folded them, and told them to follow the "Spirit/Holy Ghost", which was
the Elders whispering, while someone else was "Satan" and shouted at
them different directions and tempted them with candy and money :P
Hahah, it was pretty funny to watch. Hm. The only other thing I can
think of was yesterday, Sunday. It was pretty eventful, I guess. One
really cute thing was a girl in the American military ward came up to
us, she's like 6 or 7, and she had made a name tag and a picture Book of
Mormon (with like 4 pictures in it that she drew) and told us she was a
missionary, and wanted to sit with us during Sacrament meeting. It was
SO CUTE! Though she looked really bored during the meeting :P it can
only get so entertaining for children :P
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| Dudi. Too bad she went back to Mongolia :( |
After church, the Fairhursts
(the older couple missionaries in my area) had a lunch for ward
members, and we went with Dudi, who came to church. :) The food was
so yummy! I ate too much. Like, I didn't eat dinner or breakfast this
morning, because it was that much :P Hahha. Anyways. The cool thing was - a few weeks ago, the Fairhursts had routinely seen someone on the
military base, and felt like they should talk to him. When they finally did, they found out that he was actually a member, but
had been inactive for 10+ years, and wanted to go back to church, but
hadn't because he felt guilty. He and his wife (a SUPER friendly and
awesome Korean woman) were there, and so we got to talk to them a bit.
While we were talking with his wife, her English name is Becky, she
asked us about the church and the restoration, so we explained it to
her, and it was a really cool experience. She was so open to it, and
loved our answers. She had a question about why there were so many churches, but every time she asked other churches, they always just said that
theirs was the right one and she should join them. This woman hasn't really had religion in her life, and
didn't even really know what the Bible was, but she said that our answer was really good and probably the right one. So she said God had sent us to her. I was really surprised by her quick
acceptance of it, so we are really excited to see her again. During that
conversation I really felt the Spirit; it was a really good experience
after such an uneventful week.
8 ...so great were the confusion and strife among the different denominations, that it was impossible for a person young as I was, and so unacquainted with men and things, to come to any certain conclusion who was right and who was wrong.
10 In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?11 While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.12 Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.13 At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to “ask of God,” concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture. Joseph Smith History, exerpt
I've been getting better at Korean, at
least better at understanding people if they use words I know :P Hahah. I
don't care so much if I'm really slow at talking, I just want to
understand!! So I'm glad that there has been a little improvement :P
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